Sentences with phrase «stony skeletons»

According to the study, there are two main hypotheses about how stony corals build their stony skeletons.

(Inside Science)-- With their sharp, stony skeletons and stinger - laden flesh, corals are well protected against most potential predators.

Not exact matches

Researchers report that decreasing water pH — one consequence of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — dissolves the stony coral's hard skeleton but does not dislodge the soft - bodied polyps from their rocky substrate.

In an article published in the journal Scientific Reports, Baco - Taylor and her team document these reefs and discuss possible explanations for their appearance in areas considered impossibly hostile to reef - forming scleractinia, whose communities are formed by small, stony polyps that settle on the seabed and grow bony skeletons to protect their soft bodies.

Ocean acidification in particular, caused as the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, is a grave concern for stony corals, because it makes it harder for the animals to passively precipitate skeletons made of calcium carbonate, the same molecule found in antacids for heartburn and indigestion.

In an article published today in the journal Scientific Reports, Baco - Taylor and her team document these reefs and discuss possible explanations for their appearance in areas considered impossibly hostile to reef - forming scleractinia, whose communities are formed by small, stony polyps that settle on the seabed and grow bony skeletons to protect their soft bodies.

As stony corals grow, they build their skeletons from calcium (Ca) in the surrounding seawater.